Aleia
Aleia was given to 279 girls in 2025, #933 among girls’ names; 3,223 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,190 Americans named Aleia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aleia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Aleia?
#933 among girls’ names, 2025
Aleia rose from #2,712 in 2015 to #933 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.04 to 0.17 per 1,000.
279 babies in 2025, the peak
Aleia peaked in 2025, when 279 girls were given it, #933 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 271 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 279 | #933 | 0.17 |
| 2024 | 271 | #962 | 0.17 |
| 2023 | 222 | #1,107 | 0.14 |
| 2022 | 227 | #1,099 | 0.14 |
| 2021 | 226 | #1,095 | 0.14 |
| 2020 | 243 | #1,031 | 0.15 |
| 2019 | 165 | #1,366 | 0.10 |
| 2018 | 92 | #2,086 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 68 | #2,573 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 83 | #2,287 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 65 | #2,712 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 43 | #3,588 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 55 | #3,006 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 60 | #2,865 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 61 | #2,840 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 48 | #3,360 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 54 | #3,125 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 45 | #3,586 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 42 | #3,787 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 49 | #3,318 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 36 | #3,943 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 33 | #4,174 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 35 | #3,865 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 50 | #2,931 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 51 | #2,840 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 51 | #2,813 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 38 | #3,311 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 44 | #2,927 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 43 | #2,818 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 43 | #2,792 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 46 | #2,645 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 48 | #2,581 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 28 | #3,773 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 21 | #4,682 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 27 | #3,814 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 24 | #4,119 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 20 | #4,518 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,651 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 18 | #4,473 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,187 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 18 | #4,283 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 14 | #4,972 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 20 | #3,809 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,349 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 20 | #3,859 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,149 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,033 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,393 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,459 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,582 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Aleia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aleia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aleia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aleia, and how old are they?
3,190 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,223 Americans ever recorded as Aleia. The median Aleia alive today is 7 years old; half are between 4 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 1,679 people named Aleia (1,674 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,797 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 46 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 386 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 732 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,030 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Aleia born?
The states with the most babies named Aleia are California, Texas and Arizona, with 53% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Arizona is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 59 | #549 | 1.0× |
| Texas | 43 | #700 | 0.8× |
| Arizona | 18 | #372 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 17 | #915 | 0.7× |
| New York | 12 | #1,165 | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | #872 | 0.4× |
| New Jersey | 10 | #721 | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,020 | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,082 | 0.4× |
| Massachusetts | 8 | #628 | 0.5× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Aleia with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 135,915 babies since 1880, Aleia is the eighth most given (2.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 279 of their 5,253 babies (5.3%), the sixth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Aleia
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Aleia and names like it
- Compare Aleia and AllieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAleia peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aleia since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Aleia.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Aleia alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.